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The Badlands

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The vain house
Of human ambition has failed us.
    Inside its paper walls,
         Conflagrant voices
         Give rise
         To fire, foul play, skullduggery,
    Perpetual divisions.

And yet,
And yet the silent workmanship,
And the humble mystery of craft,
And the sweet nature of our youth
         Raised from our innocense
         Despite such vain foundations.
How much of this natural inclination
         For excellence and truth becomes
         Exiled by our inner strife and enmity?

Yet what lives within
         Must have a voice,
For shouldn’t the living always have a voice?

And here the biting contradiction
        Of deciding
        That the sometime-voice of one
        Should rise above the alltime-voice of others.

O for a world of everlasting innocense,
O for streets without experience,
O for humans
        Advancing without bad blood
        Between their begats and begetters,
O for houses built beyond the badlands
        Of human understanding.
Written by Frank Jaspers. 
© 2017 - 2024 Frank-Jaspers
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